School of Geography and the Environment Podcasts

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Episode	Description	People	Date
Long-period temperature records in the British Isles	Prof Chris Folland, University of East Anglia and Met Office Hadley Centre, gives a talk as part of the Met Office award for 200 years of continuous weather observations at Oxford ceremony on 15th May 2015.	Chris Folland	20 May, 2015
Long-period precipitation records in the British Isles	Prof Tim Burt, University of Durham, gives a talk as part of the Met Office award for 200 years of continuous weather observations at Oxford ceremony on 15th May 2015	Tim Burt	20 May, 2015
Are we bigger than the biosphere? An ecologist's examination of our human dominated planet.	Prof Yadvinder Malhi delivers the 2nd School of Geography and the Environment Annual Lecture at the Royal Geographical Society on 12 February 2015.	Yadvinder Malhi	24 March, 2015
Water Lives: forging a science-policy interface	Exploring the interface between science and policy-making at Water Lives - a science-policy symposium for Freshwater life in Brussels, January 2014. Listen to find out what every scientist should know about policy-making.	Paul Jepson, Helen Scales	31 March, 2014
Geography, Inequality and Oxford	Danny Dorling delivers his inaugural lecture as Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography on 'Geography, Inequality and Oxford'.	Danny Dorling	17 February, 2014
Environmental Decision-Making in the European Union: Who Exercises Power?	As part of Europe Day on 9 May 2013, the Conservation Governance Laboratory at the University of Oxford organised a panel discussion co-sponsored by the School of Geography and the Environment and the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.	Paul Jepson, Jonas Schoenefeld, Caroline Jackson, Kaarina Kolle, Michael Shackleton, Anthony Teasdale	15 May, 2013
The People's Planet: Reconnecting climate science, climate policy and reality	Myles Allen (Professor of Geosystem Science, School of Geography and the Environment and Department of Physics) delivers his inaugural lecture on 28 Nov 2011.	Myles Allen	7 February, 2012
A President, the Gobi and the Oxford Union: Environment, Politics and Mining in Mongolia.	Three researchers analyse the Mongolian President's speech at the Oxford Union, October 2011. Drawing from their current research, the themes of environment, politics and mining influence in Mongolia are discussed and implications for the future assessed.	Troy Sternberg, Nick McDonnell, Ariell Ahearn-Ligham	22 November, 2011
Soil moisture and feedback cycles; southern Africa as a carbon sink	Andrew Thomas, Manchester Metropolitan University, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, on the 15-16 April 2010.	Andrew Thomas	24 February, 2011
Minimum carbon payment along an aridity gradient for dryland forestation	Henri Rueff, Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, on the 15-16 April 2010.	Henri Rueff	24 February, 2011
Casting new light on Late Quaternary environmental and palaeohydrological change in the Namib desert: a review of the application of optically stimulated luminescence	Abi Stone, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, on the 15-16 April 2010.	Abi Stone	24 February, 2011
Modelling the emission and transport of Saharan dust	Jamie Banks, Atmospheric Physics, Oxford, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, on the 15-16 April 2010.	Jamie Banks	24 February, 2011
Aeolian research	Marcelo Zarate, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Soanta Rosa, Argentina, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, on the 15-16 April 2010.	Marcelo Zarate	24 February, 2011
Water landscapes in central Sahara	Savino di Lernia, University of Rome, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, on the 15-16 April 2010.	Savino di Lernia	24 February, 2011
Gateway of India: the implications of palaeoenvironmental change in the Thar desert, NW India, for the dispersal of Homo Sapiens	James Blinkhorn, School of Archaeology, Oxford, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, on the 15-16 April 2010.	James Blinkhorn	24 February, 2011
A new estimate about the evaporation in the deserts of northwestern China	Xiaoping Yang, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, on the 15-16 April 2010.	Xiaoping Yang	24 February, 2011
Wet rocks, big trouble? Using novel techniques to assess rock art deterioration	Lisa Mol, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, on the 15-16 April 2010.	Lisa Mol	24 February, 2011
The role of the desert in forming the ancient Egyptian civilisation	Mohamed Abouelata, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, on the 15-16 April 2010.	Mohamed Abouelata	24 February, 2011
Hominid dispersals and the Middle Palaeolithic of Arabia	Huw Groucutt, School of Archaeology, Oxford, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, on the 15-16 April 2010.	Huw Groucutt	24 February, 2011
From Dick to the Desert: a short (and incomplete) history of Oxford geography's contributions to desert science	Prof. David Thomas, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, delivers the keynote address at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, on the 15-16 April 2010.	David Thomas	24 February, 2011
The role of NGOs in the Drylands Development Paradigm	Mike Mortimore talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, on the 15-16 April 2010.	Mike Mortimore	24 February, 2011
Inferences on retrospective climate of Thar desert through luminescence dating of aeolian and lacustrine sequences	Ashok Singhvi, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, on the 15-16 April 2010.	Ashok Singhvi	24 February, 2011
Groundwater and irrigation in Balochistan, Pakistan	Dr Daanish Mustafa, Dept. of Geography, King's College London, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, on the 15-16 April 2010.	Daanish Mustafa	24 February, 2011
Climate change and cultural transitions over the last 160,000 years in NW Africa	Angela Vaughan, School of Archaeology, Oxford, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, on the 15-16 April 2010.	Angela Vaughan	24 February, 2011
Rejecting authenticity in the desert landscapes of the modern Middle East (Oman)	Dr Dawn Chatty, Development Studies, Oxford, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, on the 15-16 April 2010.	Dawn Chatty	24 February, 2011
Livelihood sustainability in drylands	Professor Andy Dougill, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, on the 15-16 April 2010.	Andy Dougill	24 February, 2011
The significance of deserts in shaping the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens	Dr Michael Petraglia, School of Archaeology, Oxford, delivers the introductory address at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, on the 15-16 April 2010.	Michael Petraglia	24 February, 2011
Riding the Perfect Storm: World on the Edge, When will the Big Bubble Burst	Lester Brown, President of the Earth Policy Institute in Washington DC, gives a lecture for the Linacre Lecture Series; Riding the Perfect Storm.	Lester Brown	8 February, 2011
Earth: A Three Act Structure	Relevance of geological ideas to contemporary environmental issues.' Professor Iain Stewart, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth.	Iain Stewart	28 January, 2011

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